Transaction map — music gear & pro audio
2014 – 2026 · 42 transactions and macro events. Back to the full report.
The plot spreads to fill this window, so on a wide screen the events separate and need fewer stacked rows than the copy embedded in the report. It never compresses below a readable minimum — below that width it scrolls.
This map is drawn in the browser and needs JavaScript. Every transaction it plots is also a row in the three era tables of the full report, with its date, its value and its source.
Placed by announcement date. Lane assignment reflects where in the industry the transaction landed, not the acquirer's home category. Lane colour identifies the lane and is not a scale; dot fill encodes disclosed or reported headline consideration in USD; Sonova/Sennheiser (€200m ≈ $236m) is bucketed on its converted value. Shaded bands mark the pandemic demand surge and the 2025 tariff regime — both macro shocks, not transactions. Compiled 11 August 2026 from public sources.